>> the mention of the arabs spring, two weeks ago, in texas, a person was scheduled to speak at the hilton hotel with pressure from care and the muslim brotherhood. that was canceled. the hilton is very high-profile american corporations, international interest, and what did you feel the ramifications of that might be? this is ansure intelligence or policy question for any of us to comment on. if i could add one footnote, it is the issue about intelligence warning, me, and gregg put his finger on it, it is a matter of timing. somebody wrote a paper in 1979 -- had a team of analysts that looked at these issues, and i have always been one who was one of a more dour people, but these are serious issues. the datapoint is the birth rate in russia is declining. it is the only moderate advance society where the protections are in the next 30 years the number of russians will go from 140 billion to the 110 million range. if you look at the consequences of that, how do you man an army? do you import your work forces from central asia? if you take about the problems the russians have already the peo